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“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.”

Thinking Real Opportunity Wealth Effort Poverty Materials Achievement Overcoming Mere Acknowledge Disgrace

Book:The History of the Peloponnesian War

Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War

“It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.”

People Community Poverty Mere Financial Dues Coincidence Historic Recessions Assisting

Author:Bill Mollison

“Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.”

Years Ends Pleasure Existence Moral Poverty Intellectual Mere Pursuit Bitter Vain Sufficient Restless Doom Vacuity

Book:Works: The strenuous life

Source: Works: The strenuous life

“This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.”

Found Levels Poverty Higher Mere Etc Detachment Chastity Higher Level Amputation

Author:Gabriel Marcel

“I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they are very vulnerable, but I see it in the fact that the economic institutional order of the world is associated with this very persistent poverty and that different institutional arrangements at the supranational level could stop and even reverse the slide towards ever-greater income disparities.”

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

Men Trying Humans Long War God Stories Religion Christianity Class Poverty Terrible Ambition Slavery Mere Empires Hopeless Human History Prostitution

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.”

Ifs World Facts Hands Poverty Healthy Findings Mere Lifetime Simplicity Casts Excited Generous Pennies

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK